2015 Award Recipients

The 2015 Patents for Humanity awards ceremony recognizes seven recipients in five categories, plus three honorable mentions, selected from the 2014 application period. Read more about their stories below.

Award Winners

Category

Recipient

Medicine

Sanofi

for supplying large quantities of anti-malarial compounds on an at-cost basis for use in developing countries.

GRIT: Global Research Innovation & Technology

Honorable Mentions

The application field was very competitive and there were many great submissions that we could not recognize. These honorable mentions represent the finest such entries that deserve special recognition for their work. Efforts like these to improve the lives of the less fortunate with game-changing technology are vital to overcoming the global challenges facing humanity.

InBios International

FlameStower

for creating a device to convert excess heat energy from cooking stoves into electricity to charge phones and other devices, decreasing the cost of energy access for those living in off-grid regions of the world.